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1. Houston McTear, the World's Fastest Human. In his case, it was rags to riches to rags.As a high school junior in 1975, he ran the 100-yard dash in 9.0 seconds to tie the world record.
Streetwise follows the lives of several homeless teenagers, although it focuses most on 14-year-old Erin Blackwell, a young prostitute who goes by the name of Tiny. Much of the time, Tiny stays at the home of her alcoholic mother, Pat, who seems unfazed by her daughter's prostitution, calling it a "phase".
Snyder became the driving force of CCNV but worked with many deeply committed people including his wife and professional partner, Carol Fennelly; Mary Ellen Hombs, with whom he co-authored Homelessness in America: A Forced March to Nowhere; and Ed and Kathleen Guinan.
While celebrities and corporate sponsorships publicized Hands Across America, the task of planning for a transcontinental chain of people fell mostly to political organizers. Fred Droz, a former Democratic Party "advance man" who had become disillusioned with politics after the defeat of Jimmy Carter , became the project's national director. [ 15 ]
Flickr By Jacquelyn Smith and Vivian Giang Before they rose to fame, many of the world's wealthiest and most recognized celebrities struggled for money. And some weren't just poor - they were
Image credits: NBC / Getty #2 Selena Gomez. Selena’s mother, Mandy, had her at sixteen years old. The Only Murders in the Building star recalls having to search for quarters to pay for gas ...
The 1975 Supreme Court decision O'Connor v. Donaldson limited involuntary psychiatric hospitalization to those who posed a danger to themselves or others. Many states passed legislation following the ruling, including New York, which passed its Mental Hygiene Law in 1978, allowing involuntary hospitalization of people with mental illness if they were considered a danger to themselves or others.
Tunnel People (Dutch title: Tunnelmensen) is an anthropological-journalistic account describing an underground homeless community in New York City.It is written by war photographer and anthropologist Teun Voeten and was initially published in his native Dutch in 1996, and a revised English version was published by the Oakland-based independent publishing house PM Press in 2010.